Director, Compensation & Benefits Job at Forterro (London)

Job Description

As Director of Compensation & Benefits, you will build and lead a new Compensation & Benefits Centre of Excellence, shaping a modern, high-impact reward function that enables Forterro's growth ambitions. You will play a leading role in the implementation of the EU Pay Transparency framework, ensuring our approach to reward is fair, forward-looking, compliant, and aligned with market expectations across our international organisation. This is a pivotal role in defining a total rewards strategy across EMEA and APAC that is competitive, equitable, and closely connected to our unified business goals.

Job Responsibility

Establish and lead a new Compensation & Benefits Centre of Excellence, building the core reward frameworks, governance, and operating foundations needed to support Forterro's next phase of growth
Shape and embed a scalable compensation and benefits strategy following a period of significant acquisition activity, bringing greater consistency, transparency, and cohesion across the organisation
Create the strategic reward foundations that enable future growth platforms, including job architecture, pay structures, governance standards, and a clear total rewards philosophy
Lead the implementation of key strategic reward agendas, including EU Pay Transparency requirements, ensuring a fair, modern, and compliant reward approach across multiple jurisdictions
Act as the strategic reward partner to executive and functional leadership, advising on competitiveness, pay equity, affordability, and the reward implications of business transformation
Lead the global annual compensation review cycles, including merit, market adjustment, bonus, and promotion planning
Partner with the Talent & Growth team to apply job architecture frameworks, conduct market benchmarking, and maintain salary banding supported by robust data and insights, with support from People Operations where required
Develop and manage reward governance policies and compensation compliance practices, including gender pay, market reporting, transparency, and disclosure requirements
Lead the evaluation, design, and governance of global and local employee benefit programs, including pensions, insurance, and wellbeing offerings
Partner with Local & Functional Business Partners to ensure benefit offerings are competitive, unified, costed and compliant in all jurisdictions
Develop wellbeing strategies that support holistic employee health and align to company values and culture
Generate actionable compensation and benefits insights for senior stakeholders through the use of market intelligence, internal reward data, and external benchmarking, supporting informed and commercially grounded decision-making
Provide analytical leadership for key strategic priorities, including pay transparency, pay equity, job architecture, and reward governance, ensuring data integrity and clear insight to support policy and decision-making
Lead compensation-related input into HRIS, workforce planning, and organisational design initiatives, ensuring reward data and structures are aligned to broader people and business transformation programmes
Develop high-quality dashboards, reporting, and insight packs that enable leaders to monitor reward performance, assess competitiveness, and make evidence-based decisions at scale

Requirements

Proven director-level experience in Compensation & Benefits or related reward roles, ideally within matrixed, international Software or SaaS organisations
Deep knowledge of EMEA & APAC compensation practices, benefits design, and relevant employment legislation across multiple jurisdictions
Experience operating within a Centre of Excellence model, ideally in a global business that is evolving through growth or rapid acquisition
Strong analytical capability and commercial acumen, with the ability to use data and insight to inform decision-making
Demonstrated experience in job architecture, market benchmarking, salary banding, and annual reward cycle management
Experience working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment, with familiarity in HRIS platforms and reward analytics tools
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders across functions, geographies, and cultures

Nice to have

In addition to English, a proficiency in one or more of the following languages would be desirable but is not essential
French
German
Polish

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